Among the issues for me with respect to the linked page provided in Linda's
post is the $2,000 fee for a three-week course. Then there is the
eligibility criteria, including:
* Mid to senior level position in a community-based organization, people's
organization, government department, intermediary organization, NGO or
equivalent
* At least five years of experience in community-based development
* A university degree (preferred)
* Minimum secondary school certificate
* Have some direct experience in advocacy work

I have difficulty understanding why anyone who already does advocacy and has
been doing it long enough to have reached a 'mid to senior level position'
would have need of this certificate. Of course, it's a certificate from an
institution of 'higher learning', so perhaps that's it. I see no value in it
otherwise. 

Advocacy is something one does and lives. It is fundamentally an activity
which relies on making connections, in multiple senses, with people.
Advocacy is best learned on the ground, in the trenches. As one's
understanding of the issues grows, one's praxis that is advocacy improves. 

But now, we are supposed to believe that an organic activity which grows
from the grassroots up is somehow deficient, because... 

"As a result of this program, participants will be able to:

    * Understand the conceptual frameworks for engaging in effective
advocacy work; 
	[All the work we activists are doing is ineffective because we haven't
conceptually framed it?]
    * Demonstrate skills in influencing public policy and mobilizing public
opinion in support of social and economic change; 
	[We don't demonstrate this in doing our advocacy?]
    * Enhance knowledge through the sharing of advocacy and networking
experiences, issues and approaches; 
	[We don't do this already, in our day-to-day advocacy activities?]
    * Explore ways to establish an ongoing learning network for capacity
building in advocacy. 
	[Oh, now I get it.]

I wonder who the instructor is.

Ocean, WISE Coordinator.
http://www.wise-bc.org/

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